Developing a Spanish for Health Professions Course: A Preliminary Mixed-Methods Study

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 38-56

  Altstaedter, Laura Levi ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

curriculum for specific special purposes; perceptions; Spanish; Standards for Language Learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84997483402     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: 19449720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/flan.12221     Document Type: Article

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